Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heated rage that rocked East Cambridge with riots dropped below the boiling point this week as calm returned to the white ethnic neighborhood of Lawrence P. Largey, the 17-year-old youth who died in a jail cell October...
Thus McGovern had only made one real appearance in front of an open meeting Friday. By skillful use of the media, he was able to woo ethnic and labor votes as well as to show people that he was "taking his campaign to the American people...
...Republican campaign for the ethnic vote never sleeps. At the Heritage Groups division in Washington, dedicated ethnics keep in contact with 32 nationalities round the country. A G.O.P. nationalities newsletter reports on all ethnic activities, applauds their accomplishments and notes the appointment of every ethnic to a federal post, however obscure. Regional offices are equipped with computer print-outs that list the name of every voter in a national group. The voter is called by a fellow ethnic who first tries the native tongue. If the voter responds, fine. If not, the caller switches to English. The voter is asked...
Nothing so elaborate has been undertaken by the Democrats. The ethnic division of the Democratic National Committee was even disbanded after the convention, then hastily put together again when it became apparent what the Republicans were doing. With a budget of only $50,000, another ethnic operation at McGovern headquarters sends out periodic mailings and leaves the main canvassing job to the state coordinators. Nor is the candidate as sure-footed among ethnics as Nixon. McGovern blundered when he failed to control his supporters at the Columbus Day Parade in New York City. Chanting "We want George!" they held...
...running mate Sargent Shriver is more at home with ethnics. They, in fact, constitute a significant part of his overall job in this campaign, which is to lure home the prodigal Democrats. Last week in a Catholic high school in Union County, N.J., he was greeted with cheers and whistles, though the student body prefers Nixon. Shriver's hyperbolic rhetoric goes over well in union halls: "Nixon is a man obsessed with power. What he cares about is money and military power, bucks and bombs." But it is an uphill battle. At the Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit...